AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

279% significantly better overall score

482 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

38 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

11 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

99% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1836 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23094 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20500 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20126 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1175 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1275 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

89% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

332nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 560X specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 470 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560X in our tests.

The Radeon RX 560X has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 560X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560X has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 470 is faster than the Radeon RX 560X.